Mark H. Tyler of Lincoln Avenue pleaded guilty in January to third-degree criminal sale and thirdx-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, and misdemeanor drug possession, according to the office of District Attorney James Murphy. He also failed to register as a sex offender, the prosecutor said.

Tyler was sentenced to six years in prison on the drug charges and a year in jail on the sex charge. The sentences will be served at the same time. He was arrested on the drug charges in June and the sex-offender charge in July, prosecutors said,

In 1997, Tyler admitted he raped a Saratoga Springs woman Aug., 1995, and was sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison.

Tyler's arrest in that case led to freedom for a man who was wrongly accused of the crime. The victim in the case incorrectly identified her assailant at the time of the assault and that person was released after witnesses placed Tyler at the crime scene and subsequent DNA tests came back negative for the man originally charged.

Tyler was released from prison on the rape charges in 2006 and then served two years on unrelated drug charges, getting paroled in 2010, according to the state Department of Corrections